If AI is stressing you out about your job, don’t sleep on unions as a backup plan

I actually use AI constantly and I’m not anti-progress at all but, I’ve been thinking a lot about how fast this is moving and I don’t want to watch my peers get blindsided. You should obviously learn the tools now, get ahead of it before it’s “too late” to be the person who knows how to use AI instead of the person competing against it. That’s priority one. But also, keep unions in your back pocket. Hollywood writers and actors already proved it works, they negotiated real AI protections most of us don’t have. You don’t have to wait until things get bad to organize, and you definitely shouldn’t wait on the government to figure this out for you. Just something worth having ready if it comes to that. TO BE CLEAR: unions will not stop AI integration but, they can help with negotiations like severance pay, timelines, require notices, etc…